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MACDONALD: Republicans Need to Get Their Head Out of Their A**!

December 14, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Most of the narratives about working together and being bipartisan come from the bot machines and narrative dinghies on the left. The media pressure and the social media trends are all pressure campaigns to convince Republicans that Americans won’t like them if they behave like Democrats. The left is ruthless. When they have a majority, … Read more

Loftus: GOP Senators Quickly Expose Their Glaring Disconnect With MAGA

July 9, 2025June 16, 2025 John Loftus

In the wake of Israel’s airstrikes on Iran, a spate of Republican senators quickly exposed their disconnect with the anti-war MAGA base. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted Thursday to set a tone of restraint in the administration’s response to the airstrikes, which targeted Iranian nuclear sites and left multiple top-ranking military commanders dead, emphasizing that the … Read more

Spec, What The Hell Are You Talking About?

May 11, 2024May 11, 2024 Ed Mosca

I got to know Spec Bowers during the Greg Moore … oops, sorry; of course, I mean the Bill O’Brien … speakership. For a “Yale man,” he was a good guy. A rare breath of intellectual fresh air in the very short-lived GOP supermajority elected in 2010 by the TeaParty wave.

Chuck Morse’s Only Chance To Mass Up Kelly’s Coronation

February 15, 2024 Ed Mosca

The NHGOP gubernatorial primary looks more like a coronation … of Kelly Ayotte … than a primary. Ayotte regularly rolls out endorsements from establishment-officeholders and focuses on the Democrats, while Chuck Morse runs the traditional NHGOP-establishmentarian lose-gracefully campaign.

Closing the GOP Primary

January 18, 2024 Ian Underwood

If the GOP wants to have a closed primary, it doesn’t need permission from the Secretary of State to do that. It doesn’t have to alter what happens at polling places run by the state.

The GOP Can Win Women With The Hope Agenda

December 11, 2023December 11, 2023 Op-Ed

Conservatives focus on their base, but even the most ardent now recognize that their failure to persuade swing voters, and particularly women, is a giant wall — maybe the only wall the left likes — dropped across the road to victory.

The Santos Expulsion … GOP Show They Are Cowards And Frauds

December 4, 2023 Ed Mosca

What are the two major accomplishments of the U.S. House GOP? Fully funding … repeatedly … the Biden agenda and expelling a solid conservative based merely on allegations of wrongdoing. Not convictions but merely allegations. Nearly ONE-HALF of the GOP Reps joined with the Democrats to expel George Santos.

It’s Not all Bad News: Louisiana Republicans Just Took Complete Control of State Government

November 19, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Republicans in New Hampshire might want to call Lousiana and ask them what the secret sauce is to their recent electoral success. After Saturday’s run-off elections, “Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015.”

Stratham Republican Town Committee Third Annual Fundraising Event

November 16, 2023 Op-Ed

November 13, 2023 – The Stratham Republican Town Committee will be hosting its Third Annual Fundraising Event – “What a Crock! (of Soup),” on Thursday evening, November 30^th, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Stratham Municipal Center’s Main Meeting Room, at 10 Bunker Hill Avenue in Stratham.

Bananas GOP 3: Return of the Son of Ramaswamy

November 12, 2023 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

The Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Florida, was the site of the third Republican debate. Missing from the stage were candidates Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson, and that guy Doug, as was the Reagan Library plane that disappeared like the hopes of the three vanquished old white guys.

Off Year Elections Show Abortion Still Number One Issue

November 10, 2023 Ray Cardello

There appears to be no issue that motivates voters as much as Abortion rights. You can maybe add the legalization of recreational Marijuana as a close second. There were a limited number of states with elections this year, but three states in particular should be warning signs for both Parties.

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Whether We Like It or Not, We Are Indeed in a War of Survival

October 25, 2023 Amil Imani

Conflicts within the Republican party with internal divisions and power struggles have hindered their ability to present a united front, weakening them when facing their Democrat counterparts. Thus, this source of distraction has rendered them less effective in providing a compelling alternative to Democrat policies and initiatives.

At Least One Person Was Not Happy to See Me at the NHGOP Leadership Summit

October 15, 2023 Steve MacDonald

When you show up at large events with mostly like-minded people in a state the size of New Hampshire, you will see people you know. If you write for GraniteGrok, some will know your work. The odds that they will not all love it seem likely, which is a good sign. We’re not monolithic bots. Debate is good.

Pay Attention To The Outrage – It Tells You Everything You Need To Know

October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 Ed Mosca

Did you see Faux News’ Kilmeade’s “interview” of Rep. Burchett? Kilmeade is unhinged with rage over the ouster of McCarthy. So unhinged that he even mocks Burchett’s faith. Here is the “interview”:

The GOP Establishment Failed Again

April 10, 2025September 25, 2023 Spec Bowers

The GOP lost another special election. It wasn’t just the candidate, it wasn’t Trump. It was the GOP establishment that lost the election. The Committee to Elect House Republicans (GOP in NH) created the candidate’s web page. The Issues section is so bland it could have been written about a Democrat. “Serving our community priorities … Read more

The State Of The GOP … Controlled Opposition

September 9, 2023 Ed Mosca

What have we gotten from Republicans since the Biden-Regime seized power? Tough talk … but empty words … because NO ACTION to back up the talk … indeed, just the opposite. For example, here is Lisa Murkowski talking tough, literally hours after acting in concert with the Biden-Regime. It’s a put-on. The GOP is controlled … Read more

Vivek Ramaswamy Vaults the Polls to National Prominence

November 12, 2024September 7, 2023 Jim Betti

When the first Republican primary debate ended people knew things were never going to be the same again. The exact time it happened cannot be pinpointed but the onstage career politicians had figured it out. Something dynamic had happened.

Vote Against the “Continuing Resolution” to Continue Spending Us Into Oblivion

September 5, 2023 Steve Earle

Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG) rattled the cages of the Republican Party in DC promising to vote against a Continuing Resolution to fund the government unless the House passes impeachment inquiries against President Joe Biden and to protect President Trump from the Democratic weaponization of the Courts and agencies attacking him. Wow! That got folks’ attention … Read more

Political Cognitive Dissonance Rampant In New Hampshire

August 30, 2023 Ed Mosca

So I came across this. One of Sun-King Sununu’s minions boasting that His Majesty has a 91 percent approval rating among Republicans: Yet the polls simultaneously show that President Trump … the anti-Sununu … is trouncing the field in FITN: There are several explanations for these seemingly irreconcilable results. One is that UNH polling STINKS. … Read more

The GOP-Swamp Cares ONLY About Destroying Trump

August 23, 2023 Ed Mosca

Here is what should be obvious … painfully obvious … by this point. The GOP-swamp, the GOP-elites, the GOP-establishment … whatever you want to call them … have much, much more in common with the Biden-regime than they have in common with GOP voters. Stated slightly differently, the GOP swamp-creatures … Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, … Read more